[Buddha-l] Non attached & mindful culinary triumphalism?

[Richard Hayes]

On Jul 12, 2011, at 07:24 , Richard Hayes wrote:

> On Jul 11, 2011, at 23:07, "Dan Lusthaus" <vasubandhu at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>> There's a difference between diagnostics and labeling. Issue would be 
>> whether the description is accurate, or ridiculing it is a way of blunting 
>> its accuracy.
> 
> Exactly.

There is, incidentally, no accuracy at all in the label "narcissistic" when applied wholesale to people who subscribe to any particular approach to meta-ethics. "Narcissist" is a psychological term and is probably best applied by a trained analyst after considerable exposure to the analysand to whom it is applied. It isn't something to be thrown around lightly, lest it be construed as a form of ridicule that has the effect, as Dan puts it so well, of blunting accuracy.